energized - Story 42122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam was practically vibrating, the forced announcement of the delayed flight crackling through the PA system sounding like static to him. He’d booked the ticket to see his favorite band for their reunion show, and he was so ready to get there. Now, he was stuck in this fluorescent-lit purgatory.

He adjusted his backpack, humming a song under his breath. He found a quiet corner near a window and started pacing. He pulled out a small notebook and started jotting down potential travel adjustments. Every few steps, he’d pump his fists into the air.

He’d make it. He *had* to. He could feel the anticipation surging through him. This was not a setback, this was a challenge. He’d win.

Emotion: energized

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.28 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion energized. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 energized stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the energized emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the energized vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.615
`la`	0.594
`!`	0.524
`(!)`	0.432
`!!`	0.412

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.606
`😞`	-0.479
`😔`	-0.445
`😢`	-0.360
`叹`	-0.343